NATO Has Put Its Air Units On High Alert Following A Near Miss Between Russian And Polish Aircraft

A F-16 of Polish Air Force is seen are seen during a NATO’s Baltic Air Policing drill simulating an interception of a civilian flight near Siauliai airport in Lithuania, on January 14, 2020. (AFP)  

Antiwar.com: NATO Air Units on High Alert After Near Miss Between Russian and Polish Aircraft  

Russian and NATO aircraft have had several dangerous encounters  

NATO has put its air units on high alert following a near miss between Russian and Polish aircraft, Reuters reported Monday. 

A NATO official said that on Friday, a Polish jet patrolling over the Black Sea near Romania for the EU’s border agency, known as Frontex, had a dangerous encounter with a Russian aircraft. 

“NATO air policing detachments were put on higher readiness in response to the dangerous behavior of a Russian military plane in the vicinity of a Polish Frontex aircraft over the Black Sea near Romania,” the NATO official said.

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